…tasks, i.e. experimental maintenance, mowing, etc. • Fire road maintenance. Clearing brush and trees to make fire roads safer for burning and driving. Qualifications: • Must be willing to work…
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Publications and Products Instructions
We are asking sites to provide a BibTex file of publications and products that could not have been produced without LTER support. Sites maintain records of their publications in different…
Marine consumer nutrient dynamics
…consumer populations across ten marine and coastal LTER sites. They will address two main objectives: characterizing spatiotemporal patterns in the magnitude and variability of CND and; evaluating the resilience of…
The Flux Gradient Project
…capacity of natural ecosystems While biogenic CH4 emissions are thought to be of a similar magnitude to anthropogenic emissions, biogenic emissions remain the most uncertain source of the global CH4…
2019 Science Council Meeting
…of the agenda is below so that you can begin planning your travel. The main topic for the 2019 Science Council Meeting will be the Decadal Self Study. Lightning talks…
Severe Fires Drive Shifts from Black Spruce to Broadleaf Dominance
…establish at high densities. The fast decomposing litter and rapid evapotranspiration of deciduous trees maintain a thinner, drier organic layer that does not sustain spruce forests or insulate permafrost. This…
Environmental Management can Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A research technician samples greenhouse gases on the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment Credit: Kurt Stepnitz Agriculture emits quantities of greenhouse gases equivalent to those from the transportation sector,…
Landscape Diversity Enhances Pest Suppression
A prairie strip growing in wheat at the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Credit: Kurt Stepnitz Simplification of agricultural landscapes reduces abundance of predatory insects, at substantial cost to…
Evolutionary Responses of Soil Microbes
A KBS LTER graduate student collects soil cores in a prairie strip on the Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Credit: Kurt Stepnitz Twenty-plus years of nitrogen fertilization have caused rhizobia in…
Sea-level Rise and Storms are Altering Salt Marshes
…Marsh are low, PIE LTER research has shown that marsh edge erosion during moderate intensity storms currently supplies enough sediment to maintain the marsh platform. However, with accelerating sea level…
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